Trauma-Informed and Trauma-Responsive Training for Teams and Organisations 

We provide bespoke trauma-informed and trauma-responsive training for organisations across the UK and worldwide, working with children, young people, families and vulnerable adults.

Our uniquely tailored programmes support individuals and the teams and organisations they work in to develop and embed trauma-responsive practice that improve long-term outcomes, creating safer, more effective environments.

Grounded in clinical expertise, relational practice and real-world application, our training helps teams move beyond awareness into practical, meaningful and sustainable change.

Book a Free Consultation

Ready to build trauma-informed practice in your organisation? Book your free consultation today by filling in our short enquiry form so we can understand your context, challenges and goals.

You’ll then receive a free, no obligation consultation with our Lead Trainer, Sarah Marx to explore your needs based on your setting and what would be most helpful to you.

What is Trauma-Responsive Training?

Our bespoke training helps professionals understand how trauma and adversity affect how people relate, learn, communicate, regulate emotions and experience safety.

It provides practical tools to respond in ways that promote safety, trust, emotional regulation and connection whilst being evidence informed.

By developing trauma-responsive practice, organisations can create environments where individuals feel understood, supported, and able to thrive.

Who Our Training is For?

Our trainings are designed to support teams and organisations across many different sectors, including:
  • Schools (mainstream, SEND, SEMH, residential and specialist settings)
  • CAMHS and mental health services
  • Social care teams
  • Local authorities
  • Youth justice services
  • Charities and voluntary organisations
  • Domestic abuse and family support services
  • Healthcare professionals
  • Multi-agency teams & organisations
  • Residential children’s homes
  • Leadership and management teams
  • Faith and community organisations
  • Occupational Therapy services
  • Speech and Language Therapy services
We tailor our training to your setting, workforce and organisational goals, whether you are building foundational knowledge or embedding whole-system change across your services. Click here to visit Our Partnerships page to see who we’ve worked with.

Our Training Topics

We offer a wide range of bespoke training topics, including:

Understanding Trauma

  • Different types of trauma and how they present
  • Developmental trauma and its impact across the lifespan
  • The neuroscience of trauma and impact on the brain and body
  • The impact of early trauma on attachment relationships

Behaviour and Regulation

  • Understanding behaviour as communication
  • Sensory regulation and co-regulation
  • Sensory systems and the impact of stress
  • Supporting emotional regulation in children, young people and adults

Communication and Relationships

  •  Trauma-responsive communication strategies
  • Building trust, safety and connection
  • Relational approaches to care and education

Inclusive and Specialist Topics

  • Trauma and neurodiversity (ASD, ADHD, PDA, SEMH)
  • Trauma and intersectionality
  • Working with specific age groups

Practice and Implementation

  • Trauma-responsive care models (including PACE and Neurosequential approaches)
  • Trauma-informed schools and organisations
  • Embedding trauma-responsive culture across systems
  • Multi-agency trauma-informed practice, creating alignment and strengthening collaboration
  • How as professionals we can become trauma-attuned to the people we support

Workforce Wellbeing

  • Impact of trauma work on professionals
  • Preventing burnout and secondary trauma
  • Supporting staff wellbeing and reflective practice

Programmes can range from short introductory sessions to multi day training pathways and ongoing consultation.

Benefits of Bespoke Trauma Training

Our programmes help organisations to improve outcomes for children, families and vulnerable adults and the teams that support them by:
  • Improving their understanding of trauma and its impact
  • Building a shared trauma-informed and trauma-responsive framework and language
  • Creating practical strategies for regulation, co-regulation and de-escalation
  • Reducing behaviour challenges and crisis situations
  • Increasing staff confidence in responding to distress and dysregulation and behaviour that challenges
  • Building safe, consistent and relational environments
  • Improving consistent relational responses across classrooms, teams and services
  • Strengthening collaboration across teams and services
  • Supporting staff wellbeing and reducing burnout, including protective factors against secondary trauma
Participants leave with a shared framework and language, alongside practical strategies that can be applied immediately in their roles.

How It Works

  1. Tell Us About Your Needs: Click here to complete a short enquiry form so we can understand your context, challenges and goals. If completing a form is not accessible or comfortable for you, you are welcome to call Rebecca, our Training Administrator on 01444 413939 to speak with her directly.
  2. Free 20-minute consultation: We arrange a free consultation with our Lead Trainer, Sarah Marx, to explore your needs, based on your setting and what would be most helpful to you.
  3. Bespoke Proposal: You receive a clear training proposal and transparent quote, with no hidden costs.
  4. Delivery and follow-up: We deliver your training (in person across the UK or online via Teams/Zoom), with practical next steps and resources to support implementation. We deliver international training via Teams/Zoom.

Why Choose Beacon House?

We support organisations to move beyond awareness into embedded trauma-responsive practice through:

  • Clinically informed, evidence-based training
  • Experienced practitioners with real-world expertise
  • Fully bespoke programmes tailored to your organisation
  • Practical, actionable strategies — not just theory
  • Focus on long-term, sustainable change

We blend deep clinical wisdom with compassionate, trauma‑attuned practice that reconnects professionals to the purpose, hope, and heart of their work.

Meet our Training Team

 

Together, our team brings extensive professional and living experience across trauma‑informed practice, education, mental health and relational systems work.

Sarah Marx Lead Trainer, Senior Therapist for Child and Family Services
Dr Megan Greenway Trainer and Specialist Child & Educational Psychologist
Rebecca Robertson Training Administrator
Helen Townsend Specialist Creative Designer
Laura Jacobson Creative Design Assistant